The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels Hester Grant, London: William Collins, 2026, hb., 336pps., £25 Early in the eighteenth century, the Middlesex village of Twickenham began to be noticed by Londoners wearying of the metropolis, drawn by the attractiveness of its Thames-side setting. One admirer was Alexander Pope, a poet… Continue reading
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The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination Michaela Vieser & Isaac Yuen, London: Reaktion, 2025, 175pps., hb., £14.99 “In the beginning was the Word” – but aeons before that ancient imperative there were other aural commands, within ourselves, rumbling in the gulfs of the earth, and echoing across the universe…. Continue reading